Unsettled

  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Life & Death

An unsettled shape is a shape whose life and death depends on whoever gets to play first (see sente).

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Unsettled shape

If Black plays at a, he'll live; if White plays there she'll kill Black.

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Another unsettled shape

This is another simple shape which is unsettled.

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White plays and lives

If White plays first, she plays W1, and her group is alive in a straight four since a and b are miai.

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White dies

If Black plays first, then White is killed by B1 and B3.


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